Yelken Hotel & Spa Turgutreis

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... Kings tombs carved into the cliff face walls before reaching turtle beach... Unfortunately we were too late in the season to see the females come up and lay their eggs or the hatchlings - but the beach was beautiful, clean white sand and ************e on it.. On the way back to the boat, I joined the tour group as we scouted around the pier looking for turtles that had been spotted earlier ...

... tour to an island that will most likely also have undergone a similar transition.

Does this actually benefit the area? I have to assume that it does, that the number of tourists who travel through from cruise liners and package holidays enjoy the ability to simply relax away from home, thus bringing in vital income to the area. But I hope that areas that cater to the travellers market (for people like myself) is not ignored as ...

Awoke near Pamukkale and paid a scandalous amount to get in. 10 pounds each to see some tepid pools of water. Even the initially striking karstic rock was pretty much covered in faint brown footprints. The extorsion didn't end there as it turned out that Cleopatra's Baths, the hot spring at the top was an additional cost. We thought we could get away with just paying for one of us to get in and then swapping the ...

... for it either... So yeah... no mudbath at the mudbath location.

Even though we had dinner in a nice spot on the lake, I was really just feeling very down and out. Down about the frustration of the day and out of touch with friends back home too, it has been a long long time to be away. And, save for Phoenix and Jess, the Fez Bus wasn't really helping us meet a bunch of people and stuff...instead it was taking us to leather factories and driving me nuts.

Koycegiz, Turkish Aegean Coast, Turkey jimmyandkristen

... this in the same small coach. EVERYTHING we saw belonged to Greeks going back to the times of Alexander the Great. A very nice archeological theatre we saw was built in the year of 500 BC.

By the time the tour is over we have become friends with our tour guide whose name is Zinet. She comes from Kos but she is half Turk and half Greek, with a Greek nationality.

We ask her to recommend a nice place to eat something originally Turkish ...

... had the sense that I was but an agent in the process from beyond the self). And yet, it's all gone! The beliefs are gone. The people are gone. Their gods are gone. Only the stones abide. What can you make of that?

To look upon evidence of so much human labor, and think about the human lives lived. . . .

Epilogue

I didn't see the little pup when passing back by in a dolmus in the late afternoon. Hopefully, someone took him in.

... such rocks. And, on my mind was a recent news piece of a woman who had a facial transplant. You can't really use your hands, for balance as the rocks are too sharp to touch with any force, and the growing things all have incredibly sharp spines.

So, after a while it didn't become so much fun. I just wanted to get out of that environment. But, that's what I do, sometimes getting myself into these situations.

Eventually I got back over to the ridge line. Same rocks and ...

... it has been quite a lot. Our tour started off ın Çanukkale and we had a tour of Galipoli (very eye opening) and Troy. We then made our way to Selçuk and Efes ( Ephesus). It was as impressive as the last time I visited the site. After that we went to Pamukkale (the calcified falls) and the ancient site of Heiropolis. Very cool there and the water was quite warm as we climbed up the falls (around 32°C). Our next stop was Göcek ...

... providing light nursing duties.

However, by and by my time in Ankara became crowded by my need to exit the country as my visa was about to expire. So, with the weekend of May 16-17 approaching, when family would be free to take more of the responsibilities for G.'s care, I had to head for Kas, on the southwestern--Lycian--coast. Not only was Kas the nearest and most convenient location to get to a Greek island, but it is also located in the ...